Graham Smorgon is a prominent Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n businessman and a member of the Smorgon family

Smorgon family

The Smorgon family may refer to:*Graham Smorgon*David SmorgonThe family is famous for its establishment of Smorgon Steel....

 – one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful and influential families. He was appointed as Chairman of Smorgon Consolidated in 1994, and was the chairman of the Smorgon Steel Group

Smorgon Steel

Smorgon Steel was an Australian steel manufacturing business established in the 1980s by the Smorgon family of Melbourne. The chairman of the company board was Graham Smorgon....

 in 2006 when it was split and sold to OneSteel

OneSteel

OneSteel is an Australian-based mining, ore processing and steel manufacturing company specialising in steel-long products for the construction, mining, transport and agricultural industries...

 and BlueScope Steel

BlueScope Steel

BlueScope Steel is a flat product steel producer with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Pacific and North America. It was spun off from BHP Billiton in 2002 as BHP Steel and renamed BlueScope Steel on 17 November 2003...

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Carlton Football Club presidency

In April 2006 Smorgon took over the presidency of the Carlton Football Club

Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

. He held this position until he failed to win a board position in the February 2007 club election.